One of the ‘chosen whites’: I made Mugabe laugh

09 October 2018 - 08:00
By Peta Thornycroft
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe attends the launch of basic commodities in Harare, Zimbabwe July 16, 2008.
Image: REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo/File Photo Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe attends the launch of basic commodities in Harare, Zimbabwe July 16, 2008.

Zimbabwe’s first post-independence agricultural minister, Denis Norman, now 88, changed the world for tens of thousands of subsistence farmers.

One of a handful of whites chosen by Mugabe to serve him, he talks in a new book about land grabs, making Mugabe laugh, and losing his heart for Zimbabwe.